Archived from groups: rec.video.desktop (More info?)
Hello
Sorry if this goes on a bit - I've tried to give as much detail as
possible:
I'm having a problem with my 3 year old JVC GR-DVL150 MiniDV
camcorder. I got it out over the weekend to watch back some old tapes.
This was the first time I'd used the camera for about a month, and I
had left a tape in the camera all this time (not sure if this is
relevant).
Anyway, I connected the camera up, took the tape out and put an old
one in. This played back perfectly. Then, later in the day, I put a
different tape in. Before I pressed play, I noticed that the timecode
didn't appear - just the --.--.-- that appears when a new tape is
loaded.
I pressed play but there was just the blue screen - again, as if the
tape was blank. At first, I thought I'd put a blank tape in by
mistake, but all the tapes I tried did the same thing, even the one
that had been working a minute ago.
I tried turning it off and on and then tried again but still the same.
I then had to go out, so I took the tape out and left it over night.
The next day, I tried again with one of the tapes that hadn't worked
previously. Now it suddenly worked again! I was ready to put it down
as "one of those things" but when I ejected that tape and put another
in, it was behaving as before - no timecode and no picture/sound. I
put the tape that had just been working back in, and now that didn't
work!
And that's the situation I'm in. I've done a few searches on the
internet and I've found loads of issues with JVC cameras (I wish I'd
seen these before I bought mine!) but none that matched my symptoms.
The only thing I can think of to try (apart from taking it to be
repaired) is a head-cleaning tape, but if it is the heads, I can't
understand how it could be working one minute and not the next.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
James Bird
Hello
Sorry if this goes on a bit - I've tried to give as much detail as
possible:
I'm having a problem with my 3 year old JVC GR-DVL150 MiniDV
camcorder. I got it out over the weekend to watch back some old tapes.
This was the first time I'd used the camera for about a month, and I
had left a tape in the camera all this time (not sure if this is
relevant).
Anyway, I connected the camera up, took the tape out and put an old
one in. This played back perfectly. Then, later in the day, I put a
different tape in. Before I pressed play, I noticed that the timecode
didn't appear - just the --.--.-- that appears when a new tape is
loaded.
I pressed play but there was just the blue screen - again, as if the
tape was blank. At first, I thought I'd put a blank tape in by
mistake, but all the tapes I tried did the same thing, even the one
that had been working a minute ago.
I tried turning it off and on and then tried again but still the same.
I then had to go out, so I took the tape out and left it over night.
The next day, I tried again with one of the tapes that hadn't worked
previously. Now it suddenly worked again! I was ready to put it down
as "one of those things" but when I ejected that tape and put another
in, it was behaving as before - no timecode and no picture/sound. I
put the tape that had just been working back in, and now that didn't
work!
And that's the situation I'm in. I've done a few searches on the
internet and I've found loads of issues with JVC cameras (I wish I'd
seen these before I bought mine!) but none that matched my symptoms.
The only thing I can think of to try (apart from taking it to be
repaired) is a head-cleaning tape, but if it is the heads, I can't
understand how it could be working one minute and not the next.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
James Bird
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram